BiologicALs vs Biologics – two letters to FMT

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) announced earlier this year that Faecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) would be regulated as biologicALs. Yet, many biologically-derived medicines are regulated as what we tend to call biologics.

So how do two letters distinguish between two regulatory pathways, and how to remember the difference?

BiologicALs vs Biologics – two letters to FMT